Ask the Experts: “Traveling on a Budget” Featuring Carol from Girl Gone Travel

Each month you’ve been saving MORE with your cell phone bill. You can finally take that vacation and get out of town! Our travel expert Carol with Girl Gone Travel is here to help you book your upcoming vacation but by doing it on a budget and still making sure you have the time of your life.

Submit your questions for Carol in the comments below, on Cricket’s Facebook page or on Twitter using the #CricketTips hashtag by 11:59pm CST Wednesday, February 26th and be entered to win a prize.

Carol is a public relations professional who has turned into an award-winning travel and food blogger. Girl Gone Travel is a site that reflects Carol’s travels far and wide whether they end up in her own back yard or across the world on some exotic adventure.

For more tips and tricks on budget travel or family travel, check her out on social:

Full Contest Rules:
Cricket Wireless Ask the Expert: Girl Gone Travel – Official Rules
NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE DOES NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING.
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How to Enter. During the Promotion Period (defined below), ‘tweet’ @CricketNation with a related topic question using the #CricketTips hashtag OR ‘comment’ with a related topic question on Monday’s Ask the Expert Facebook post. You will automatically receive one (1) entry for each tweet and/or comment. Limit: One (1) entry per person, per giveaway.

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3. Eligibility. Participation open only to legal residents of the United States, who are 18 or older as of date of entry. Void outside of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia, and Canada and where prohibited, taxed or restricted by law. Employees, officers and directors of Cricket Communications (“Sponsor”), and its parent company, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners, advertising and promotion agencies, manufacturers or distributors of promotion materials and their immediate families (parents, children, siblings, spouse) or members of the same household (whether related or not) of such employees, officers and directors are not eligible to enter. You are not authorized to participate in the Promotion if you are not located within the United States area. All federal, state and local laws and regulations apply.

4. Random Drawing/Odds. One (1) winner will be selected in a random drawing from all eligible entries received the Promotion Period on or about one day after that Promotion Period ends. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received for that Promotion Period drawing. Drawing will be conducted by Zocalo Group, an independent judging organization. By entering the Promotion, entrants fully and unconditionally agree to be bound by these rules and the decisions of the judges, which will be final and binding in all matters relating to the Promotion. Zocalo Group will monitor tweets using #CricketTips and comments on the 2/24/2014 Ask the Expert Facebook post during the Promotion Period. A total of One (1) winner will be selected throughout the Promotion Period. The winners will be selected on February 28, 2014.

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